LibGuides: Theatre: Find Plays

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Streaming Video Database

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Streaming, full-length videos of plays and musicals, plus interviews, study guides, and more.

Find a Specific Play

Scripts and Videos in the Library

Usually, finding a play is easy! Follow these steps:

In the catalog search box, enter the play title and author's last name.
Limit the format to Books (for scripts) or Videos.
Find the play you need in the resulting list.
Use the call number to find it on the shelf. Most plays are on the upper level of Mortensen Library and have a call number starting with P.

Occasionally, plays are harder to find. If you can't find a particular script, it may be "hiding" in an anthology. Your friendly librarians know the tricks for finding these—just ask one of us and we'll be happy to help!

Discover More Plays

See also our guide to Diversity in Theater for many more resources!

Online Resources

Tagpacker Plays (UC-Irvine)
Browse plays by genre, time period, character genders, playwright demographics, and more.
List includes plays owned by University of California Irvine. Search a title in UHart's catalog to see if we own a copy.

Anthologies in the Library (selections)

Anthology: A collection of works by different authors, published together.

The library has dozens of anthologies! Here are just a few to get you started:

Humana Festival 2019 by Amy Wegener, Jenni Page-White (Editors)
Call Number: PS634 .H86 2019 [Mortensen shelves]
All five scripts from the 2019 Humana Festival of New American Plays. Features extraordinary work by some of the most inventive voices in American theatre.
The Oxford Anthology of Tudor Drama by Greg G. Walker (Ed.)
Call Number: PR1262 .O96 2014 [Mortensen shelves]
Sixteen of the most important, innovative, and dramatically exciting plays from the Tudor period (1485-1603), edited in accessible modern spelling.
Theater of the Avant-Garde, 1890-1950 by Robert Knopf (Ed.)
Call Number: PN6112 .T42 2015 [Mortensen shelves]
The full texts of sixteen important avant-garde plays from the first half of the twentieth century. Each is accompanied by a bio-critical introduction and a critical essay.